Members noted that intergovernmental collaborative partnerships were instrumental in ensuring the work done by the Department and its entities, were used and implemented. Members particularly singled out the Departments of Higher and Basic Education, and stressed that the relationship between the Department and the education departments should be strengthened to address similar issues of concern regarding mathematics and science at school level. Other matters where members called for joint initiatives were student drop-out rates, support for Dinaledi schools, low rate of doctoral student enrolments, curricula research and support, etc.